Sunday, March 16, 2008

Time to Dance

That's right, kids. It's bracket time!!!!! For those of you who don't know, the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament is upon us. And I have decided to start a bracket for the Claudia's Room crew. The winner will get a prize, though I'm not sure what it is yet. (If I win, the runner up will get the prize. And roommates are not eligible for the prize, RNL. Sorry.) So, here's the deal:

You are invited to participate in The New York Times N.C.A.A. Men's basketball Bracket Tournament. To join my group and fill out your bracket, go to the link below and enter the group code.

You have until Thursday, March 20, at 11:30 AM ET to enter and save your picks.

Now, if you're not familiar with filling out a bracket, it's simple. You go through and pick winners for each of the matches of each of the rounds of the tournament. You get points for picking winners (the points increase as you move through the rounds). The person with the highest score at the end of the tournament wins. You have until the tournament starts to make your choices (and your changes). You make your picks for the entire tournament before it starts. So, if all your picks lose in the first round, you're done.

[I'm not sure if you have to have a NYTimes login to play. If you don't it's quick to sign up, and pretty painless and totally worth it to join my bracket.]

So, if you're into it, join the bracket! If college basketball's not your thing, I'm posting again this week, hopefully, before the tournament starts.

My poor Holy Cross did terrible this year and did not make it (not like they've ever gotten past the first round anyway). It's funny because I don't even like college basketball yet I always feel sad when they don't make it to the tournament.

Yeah ditto to those who keep getting a login failed message when they enter the code. Shucks, I was really looking forward to getting into a bracket this year, usually my work does one but no dice this year...

Milkman, what year did your friend graduate? I was 2004 and was an English/Theatre double major. My fiance was a Chemistry major so I also knew a lot of the science kids. I wouldn't bother asking but the school is small enough that I just might know your friend if he/she graduated around my time. :)

Um, Are all these anon comments from the same person trying to entertain themselves? It sure is entertaining me!

I loved that BSC movie, but not as much as the HBO BSC series. My father bought them for me on VHS and I wore them out from watching them too much. I can still sing that whole song, "You can always count on me, and I can count on you..."

We'll be sharing wonderful times everyday, all together singin' our song. Growing in every way!

Thanks guys now I am going to be humming that damn song for a week :)

OMG! Now not that I think about BSC on a daily basis but still, I just put together that Brunettes were not referring to hair color. DUH!

I am jealous because I only owned the first 2 videos. But we had HBO when I was a kid so I saw all of them firsthand. Just like Fraggle Rock (talk about another addicting song). I should see of my parents those 2 videos. I could sell them on eBay for $1.99!

I loved how those videos were loosely based on plots from the books. I think that the writers from the TV series would have been better ghostwriters than the ones they had for the books.

I think that they were talking about Logan! I do believe that there was a group of girls out to get Logan away from Mary Anne and they were at a roller-rink on the cover. I could be wrong. Anyone?!? I tend to over think things. And my memory about the BSC is spotty. I think I tried to block most of it out!

LOLOLOL. I hated Mary Anne in those videos! I liked Stacey, though. She was how I pictured her... and then I had a hard time accepting the girls in the real BSC movie because I started to picture the "video" girls as the real BSC! I heard the girl that played Stacey is the videos is a lawyer or something now. If I ever need legal counsel, I want to go to Stacey McGill, attorney at law, haha.

But seriously, I remember thinking (in 1994 when I was clearly too old to be thinking about this stuff anymore)...this doesn't make any sense. Mary Anne has brown hair. Mousy brown hair she used to have to wear in two neat braids. So much more sense.